Children need to get a high-quality education, avoid violence and the criminal-justice system, and gain jobs. But they deserve more. We want them to learn not only reading and math but fairness, caring, self-respect, family commitment, and civic duty.

Rulers are remembered for their commitment to masses more than anything else.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reached the mountaintop of our desires.

Nay, do not pinni, tho' life be dark with trouble.

History is more or less bunk.  

Once in the dream of a night, I stood Lone in the light of a magical wood, Soul-deep in visions that poppy-like sprang; And spirits of Truth were the birds that sang.

All the nations and peoples are too closely knit together today for any one of them to imagine that it can live apart. Peace has been said to be indivisible, so is freedom, so is prosperity now, and so also is disaster in this one world that can no longer be split into isolated fragments.

Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.

I'm not an expert on the arms race.

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye. 

He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.

The Jacques Cousteau shows actually got me very excited about the fact that there's an alien world here on Earth.